Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Wadh.Minasian 415 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: This work has an introduction and several chapters on the practices of Islam. The author has provided religious issues, customs, and rules for his followers in the order of jurisprudential topics. The topics of طهارت and صلاه are comprehensive, while other topics are brief and imperative taken from his other book al-Maṣābīḥ. The topics of اجتهاد and تقلید are discussed in the introduction. The book has later been translated into Persian by one of the author's students, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Yazdī, by the order of the author himself. The current copy is the Persian translation of the original book, and contains from the beginning of the book up until the end of a chapter for صوم .

Hand(s)

Additions: Birth notes on ff.67a-67b dated 1241, 1250, 1254, 1256, 1263, 1270, 1275, 1278, 1280, 1282.Death note dated 1268.Other notes include تاریخ کاشتن باغچه فی ۱۵ شهر رمضان‌المبارک سنه ۱۲۷۶ and هشترود رفتن ۱۲۶۳ .There are three different oval stamps on different folios of the copy and all are illegible, but one of them has the date of 1296 AH/1879.

Binding

Brown leather, 20×22 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only

Decorative tooling

Condition

History

Origin:Unknown place of origin; 15 Shavvāl 1239 AH; 1824 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Record Sources

This record was created based on the information published in: Mir-Ansari, Ali, Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016.